Promotion and Graduation

You are seeing some pictures from our promotion and Scott's graduation. We are at the tail end of a busy week. We packed up the house, cleaned it thoroughly, have had Grammy Barb visiting, both got promoted, Scott graduated, had two big parties, and are now relaxing on Father's Day. Phew!

Visit to the Mainland

Auntie Heather and Jake at Aunt Barb's. They are watching fireflies!

Grandpa Tom Tom and Jake at a farm visit with Uncle Dan, Aunt Renita, and Grandma Weezie:

Visit at Aunt Barb and Uncle Marv's with second cousins, Jacob and Ava:

I can't believe how long it's been since we blogged! The last few weeks have definitely flown by as we've traveled around the midwest to visit family, to Atlanta to look for a new home, and back to Hawaii to outprocess and move our stuff. Even as we speak, the movers are packing up our entire house. The cats and Jake are a little mystified by the whole thing. Good news is, we've found a house! It's a long story, but we decided to rent for the short time that we'll be in Atlanta. We'll be moving to the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta. It's a good, central location to all our work places and is a cute city neighborhood with parks, trendy shops, and hopefully nice neighbors! Best news for me...it's only about a mile from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and a Caribou Coffee! I'll write more in the next few days as we prepare to leave our beautiful home in Hawaii and start our new adventure. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our travels.

Party Days!

Adam had his promotion ceremony this weekend and we celebrated with him. Scott and I were promoted to Major as of yesterday (Sunday), but we haven't officially "pinned" on so we aren't wearing the rank yet. Our ceremony will be 19 June. Here's a picture:

Thanks to Heather, Adam's mom, Nancy, Melissa, and Malia, Jake and I were able to throw a really fancy tea for our friend, Callie's, baby shower. It was a lot of fun and I think everyone really enjoyed themselves. I am going to miss living in this house with all the entertaining amenities. Jake is a great sport and enjoyed his first taste of sherbet punch, angel food cake, and brownies (at least that I know of!) He loved all of the attention. Here a couple of pictures:

Jake is saying a new word: tiger! In honor of his lunch box, which is in the shape of a tiger. Scott is traveling to Palau and we miss being there with him. We'll get a fun trip soon! We're looking forward to seeing everyone soon in order to continue the Party Days!

Happy Mothers day

Heather, Mandy jake and I went to the botanical gardens in Kaneohe today for lunch to celebrate mommy day. I grabbed some takeout from Boots and Kimo in Kailua to bring along. Kate and James can appreciate the macadamia nut pancakes that we all are so fond of. It was a really nice day with plenty of ducks for jake to terrorize and feed as well as many other new things to get into. Jake decided to start jumpimg off of things recently as you will see with one of the videos. The other pictures are of us in the park.

The first video is Jake jumping off the park bench (no I didn't push him)

This video is of Jake feeding the duck the leftover macadamia nut pancakes he seems to love all animals especially birds, dogs and cats.



Jake also now has a favorite activity in the pool. Sometimes he leisurely steps out off the edge and sometimes he is able to actually jump. The good thing is he does it over and over until he gets worn out which is good for us.

The Jake Gym

I don't always get much time to wor out but thankfully Jake is usually nearby willing to help with some basic exercises. James coined the term "Jake Gym" a while back and since then the exercise possibilties have expanded. He is now trained as you can see to provide extra challenge to my push ups.

He also helps with hiking occasionally. we took him with us to the lighthouse off Mokapu'u point. He didn't like the monkey on his back so much at first but eventually he got used to it.

Mom and Dad went to Disney World and all I got was this stupid hat!!

It has already been a few days and we are back to work already. Mandy had her annual FP conference in Orlando this year. I was able to tag along and visit with some old friends from medical school. We got Jake a hat and a few other things. He didn't seem to mind that we were gone for a few days.

Jake vs. Kili 2: Grudge Match

Jake and Kili scrap from time to time but Kili is geting older and Jake is just getting bigger. Yesterday they had a confrontation over who was boss of the window (usually only Kili and Hobbes fight over this) and decided to throw down. It wasn't too pretty, we missed the first few seconds where Kili got his sucker punch in but after that it was all Jake who is steadily improving his ground game. He even stopped a few seconds to taunt Kili in front of the camera.